REAL-TIME CHAT IN COMMENTS

The comments system now supports real-time text chat between multiple users working in the same Document.

ANGLE FLANGE BY REFERENCE

You can now specify an angle reference when creating a sheet metal flange.

MERGE SCOPE FOR SURFACES

When creating surfaces using Onshape's advanced modeling tools, you can now specify a merge scope and choose which surfaces to merge them with.

DATUM EXTENSION LINES

A datum symbol can now be dragged off a face and an extension line is automatically created.

GRIP EDIT RADIAL AND DIAMETER DIMENSIONS

You can now edit the target geometry for radial and diameter dimensions using the grip point at the tip of the arrowhead.

COPY ANNOTATIONS BETWEEN DRAWINGS

As well as being able to copy annotations such as Notes, Surface Finish symbols, Weld symbols, Geometric Tolerances and Tables between Sheets of the same Drawing, you can now also copy and paste them into different Drawings in the same Document and Drawings in other Documents too. This makes it much easier to copy standard annotations from one Drawing to another.

UPDATE VERSIONED DRAWINGS TO REFLECT CHANGES TO METADATA

This latest update contains a significant architectural change designed to improve your ability to implement a release management workflow using Onshape. This work lays the foundation for new capabilities that you will see in future releases. We are making this feature available now so that you can take advantage of this new workflow and you can read a more detailed explanation here to explain our thinking and direction.

VERSIONED DRAWING THUMBNAILS

Now when a version of a Document is created, a thumbnail is generated for each Part, Assembly, and Drawing so you can see at a glance how that Drawing looked at that version when using the Tab Manager or other tools that display thumbnails.

Note: the thumbnail is generated after a versioned drawing has been viewed for the first time.

QUICK LINKS TO IMAGE FILES IN DRAWINGS

You can now quickly find the source file of an image added to a drawing by right clicking the image and selecting one of two available options. If the image is located within the active Document, the menu will display "Switch to <element name>" and you will be taken straight to that tab. If the image was linked from another Document, the menu will display "Open linked document" and the image tab within that linked Document will be opened in a new browser tab.

OPEN VIEW PROPERTIES FROM VIEW AND SCALE LABELS

When you double click a view label or a scale label, the view properties dialog will now appear. Previously, double clicking these labels would allow you to edit the text in the label. If you still wish to do this, right click the label and select "Edit note". For your convenience, the right-click context menu for labels now also includes all the options found on the view right-click context menu, and the options for "Copy" and "Move to" have been removed.

Please take a moment to try out these new features and improvements and let us know what you think!

Remember: The updates listed here are now live for all users when creating new Documents and over the next few days these features will also be available in Documents created before the date of this update.

Great to see some more updates, improvements to the comments are welcome as are the drawing and surfacing improvements.

Special thanks to @lana for the flange align in sheet metal this should work a treat for those complex angle jobs.

With comments and Onshape over the past few weeks, I have been trying to reduce my reliance on marked up screen shots by using comments but I am finding that the screen shot still serves me well. I regularly load Onshape on my phone take a screen markup with iPhone mark up tools and place in my chat or email. Tagging to geometry and zooming to the view angle of the tag is great but I am thinking we still need some form of markup.

I still have my beer in cold for that. Though I would like to have everything now, I highly appreciate Onshape for keeping the high quality in testing and not trying to release more than they have ready.

Thanks @ilya_baranWe need something that shows if a sketch dimension is driven by a variable. Currently we have to open each dimension to see if there is a variable hiding behind it. Be that a different colour, an icon, or preferably the name and value. Just something. Even showing "#100" in my example above is just one extra character...

That would require some UX thinkng -- the balance is against taking up space on the screen and "noise" in a busy sketch.

it may be the place for several checkbox options in sketch dialog deactivated by default, such as - show external references (to hilight by another color constraints to external geometry) and show variables in dimentions

I would like to have button (and hotkey) to switch between just value / #variablename = value. This is because I take a lot of screenshots with 'show dimensions' view and I don't want var-names messing up my MBD